Ezekiel 16:8:1Ezek.16.8.W1TAB
וָאֶעֱבֹ֨ר
vaevor
“and I passed”
- Transliteration
- va-e-VOR
- Extended
- vaa-eh-VOR
- IPA
- /vaː.ʔɛʕəˈvoːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- and I passed
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hateph Seghol | reduced 'eh' | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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Word in context
- word
va-e-VOR
- phraseyour reading level
va-e-VOR a-LA-yikh
- clause
va-e-VOR a-LA-yikh va-e-REKH ve-hin-NE i-TEKH ET do-DIM va-ef-ROS ke-na-FI a-LA-yikh va-a-kha-SE e-re-va-TEKH
- sentence
va-e-VOR a-LA-yikh va-e-REKH ve-hin-NE i-TEKH ET do-DIM va-ef-ROS ke-na-FI a-LA-yikh va-a-kha-SE e-re-va-TEKH va-e-sha-VA LAKH va-a-VO vi-ve-RIT o-TAKH ne-UM a-do-NAI ye-ho-VI va-ti-HE-yi LI
Exegesis
The verse opens with the vav-consecutive vaʾeʿevor {וָאֶעֱבֹ֨ר | wā-ʾe-ʿĕ-ḇōr} ‘and I passed by’, establishing divine movement.
Root and etymology
ʿ-b-r
“to pass over”
In context — Ezekiel 16:8
I passed by you and saw you, and behold, it was the season of love, and I spread my wing over you and covered your nakedness . I swore an oath to you and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord GOD , and you became mine.
About this coordinate
Ezekiel 16:8:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Ezekiel 16:8, so the Hebrew word וָאֶעֱבֹ֨ר (vaevor) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Ezek.16.8.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.16.8.W1.S1) and character.